Updating your workspace for more organized and efficient hacking

If you’ve ever looked at one of [Todd Harrison’s] teardown or how-to videos closely, you would likely notice that his work bench looks like a standard hacker workspace. While we all try to keep our work areas clear of clutter, it’s not uncommon for components to pile up, cords to tangle, and things to get messy. [Todd] decided it was time to get a bit more organized, so he recorded a video showing how he went about the process.

Part of [Todd’s] work revolved around adding shelves to his bench so that he didn’t have measurement equipment stacked on top of one another. He also spent a good amount of time adding 30 additional plug sockets to his work space, replacing the single socket he had been struggling with for years.

Obviously this is not really a hack in and of itself, though this sort of reorganization is an important to efficient hacking all the same. We like the fact that [Todd] took the time to explain his process and materials in great detail – it will no doubt be helpful to those new to hacking.

Continue reading to see [Todd’s] video in its entirety, or swing by his blog for more pictures and details.

I do so much need shelves above my workspace.
But magnets for tool-holders does not seem like the best idea. It irritates me when a pair of pliers will not let go of a smd component because it is magnetic.

Getting stranded wire in solidly under screw coovtion can become bearcat if you are doing a lot of wiring, personally I’d stick to solid wire. In the event you have a hard pull you should have installed ax to facilitate the pull. I can’t remember off the top of my head what the NEC requires, but the requirement is a good guideline in practice. When I was kid we used those Leviton Bakelite surface mount devices, running romex between them. I ran across some not to long ago, man are they expensive now Just may as well do it the “proper” way, it would be cheaper.